Lauren Levy, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

I utilize an eclectic approach when working with couples which includes Imago Relationship Therapy and a number of other processes that help each partner feel fully heard and understood. My goal is to help you connect in a way that fosters empathy and taking responsibility for one's role in the problems which brought you to therapy. My clients often say, "I never felt like he/she heard me before. Not like this." Couples often say that they come to therapy because their relationship is not working and they want to make it work. When couples allow me to show them "another way" to improve their communication and connect with each other the results are transformative.

Hal Brickman, LCSW, RCSW, CSW, MSW, CHT

New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker

It wasn't always this way. There was a time you looked forward to being with each other. You both trusted and enjoyed each other's company. You felt understood and accepted for being yourself. In couple's counseling, Hal offers you the opportunity to find the hidden strengths in the heart and soul of your relationship. Hal has helped hundreds of couples to improve communication and increase trust. Hal is very well respected and experienced in couple's counseling. In addition, he is a published author and was invited to appear on David Letterman's Late Night television program.
Hal's schedule is flexible and appointments are available on evenings and weekends. Call Hal at (516) 439-4282

Kristin Schaefer Schiumo, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychologist

In my work with couples, I strive to know each person well, to understand what challenges and distortions are brought into the relationship, and to foster an open and collaborative dynamic. This structure does not leave room for blame, which is hurtful and counter to the development of nurturing, bonded, and loving adult relationships. Instead, the focus remains on needed emotional relearning and behavioral change within the couple. To make your relationship last, you must become better friends, learn to manage conflict, and create ways to support each others dreams for the future. I will help you accomplish this by paying attention to several aspects of healthy relationships.

Priska Imberti, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

It can take us a lifetime to learn to accept the person we have chosen to live with, but it could also take us the same time to try to change that person and not be successful. Couples Therapy can help us understand that even though we all have the potential to change, we cannot change the other. We can learn how to accept the other person, live together or decide not to, and explore what are our own contributions to the dilemmas that we present.

Chloe Carmichael, PhD

Clinical Psychologist

Couples sessions at Carmichael Psychology will allow you to get to the heart of your relationship issues. Dr. Chloe or one of her associates will work with you to help you open the channels of communication and learn new ways to listen to each other, bringing your relationship to a new positive level. Allow us to help you find more positive ways of interacting, so that you can both find the satisfaction that you want and deserve in the relationship.

Maria Sue Butler, LMFT, Supervisor State Of Florida

LMFT Diplomate, Certified of Anger management

Art prides in helping many couples achieve the goals they aspire for their lives. Our intense relational skill building approach has succeeded when many other treatments have failed. Why? Clients get couples therapy along with anger management treatment; a two-for-one treatment at no extra cost that no one else offers. Expressions of anger usually accompany difficulties couples face. Give yourself opportunities that will save your marriage. Call us!!
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Maureen Berube, LMFT

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

If you are in a troubled relationship, seeking help is more effective than ignoring your problems or hoping they get better on their own. Whether your goal is to strengthen bonds and gain a better understanding of each other or to resolve under-lying tensions, couples counseling can move your relationship to a happier, more satisfying place. Some of the issues that I address in treatment include: communication problems, sexual difficulties, conflicts with child rearing or blended families, substance abuse, financial problems, anger, infidelity and divorce.

Jeff Robinson, MSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Coming to counseling as a couple is fraught with risk. Will the therapist be fair? Will I be heard? Will I feel a connection with the therapist? What will be involved? Most couples seek therapy well into the conflict--yes, never too late, but more challenging to heal.
It is the responsibility of the therapist to hear both stories. Each partner comes with his/her own histories that have become part of the narrative. We need to take a look at this to see how it has impacted the relationship. We need to highlight the need for empathy in our relationships—we may not agree, but can we understand and feel how our partner may be experiencing the matter at hand? Can we have compassion?

John Bean, LCSW-R

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

I specialize in working with couples on issues of intimacy, infertility, adoption, child rearing and career building. My familiarity with the demands of urban living, pressures of work/career, job relocation and family life are incorporated into our work. I assist your couple to focus on and resolve those issues creating conflict in your life. I have expertise in cross-cultural couples work helping you understand and clarify issues related to acculturation, assimilation and bi-lingual communication. I am fluent in English and French.

Karen Arluck, LCSW, RYT

Psychotherapist

I work with couples facing all different challenges to help them feel more satisfaction in their relationship. Couples counseling is a unique type of therapy as it is different than working with an individual. I pay particular attention to making the therapy process feel as safe as possible, and balancing each person's individual feelings and thoughts as well as their feelings as a couple.

New York Behavioral Health, Ph.D.

New York Behavioral Health

Couples often go through ups and downs. While this can be normal, many of us have discovered at times that we may not have the emotional, interpersonal, or practical skills to navigate this as well as we would like.
There is a great deal of evidence that cognitive behavioral couples therapy is effective for increasing relationship satisfaction. There is even evidence that effective couples therapy can help to reduce depression symptoms.
While a romantic relationship may require work, we also want it to be a source of support. Learning skills to effectively communicate, problem solve, and accept the situations a couple faces can significantly improve both partners' satisfaction.

Nikki DiFranks, PhD, MA, MS, LCSW-R

Dr. Nikki Nelson DiFranks

Although some clinicians may treat unmarried/married couples differently, I do not. This is because I do not take a position, often assumed with pastoral counseling, that a couple ought stay together. My aim is to assess what the couple and family system desires, and where there is disparity, to facilitate a solution that is viable for all. Often, I work to help a confused couple decide whether they wish to stay together, and if they do not, I can help them decide how to separate, as well as help other family members make this transition. Many times, couples/family therapy is about improving the relationships without intentions separation. Assessment of needs is critical to my approach.

Joseph Markowicz, LCSW-R, MFT

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Couples therapy is my area of expertise. I have seen many couples and have been very helpful to almost all of them. I have seen young couples who are trying to make a decision about their future, and couples in various other stages of their marriage or relationship. You will benefit from my knowledge of the field and my interactive style. We will explore the issues that keep you from enjoying each other fully and practice how to get there in a positive, collaborative way.

Howard Rossen, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Maintaining and nourishing a meaningful relationship is far harder than anyone can reasonably predict. You and your partner are both independently formed individuals that "come together to form a more perfect union." But if we don't learn to adapt and respect the needs of our partner how can we grow as a couple? And if we don't honor our individual needs and desires how can we breathe within ourselves? It is this battle of mutual respect for our relationship while honoring the self-respect of our individuality that creates the chasm of a couple's conflict. A healthy and supportive counseling environment can begin the process of regaining the spark that was ignited the first time you met.

Edward Pino, M.S. NCC, LMHC

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Ed has been practicing psychotherapy for over 30 years. Ed relates well to people and specialize in Co-dependency, 12 Steps, Stress Management, and relaxation. Ed has worked with depression, anxiety and addiction and consider 's himself to use counseling techniques that work.
Ed is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a National Certified Counselor Certified Cognitive Behavioral Counselor, and a member of the American Counselor Association
Ed has worked in both Private and Group Practices. Ed employs the use of cognitive and behavioral therapy techniques that work well and specializes his sessions for each client
Ed has developed a unique approach to meeting client needs. This approac....

Angela Monti Fox, LCSW, MS,PC

Angela Monti Fox, Licensed Mental Health Professional

My approach to couples counseling is unique. It is not about telling me your problem and having me find a solution-it is about facing each other and communicating and together perhaps ironing out a solution. There is no "he said, she said"! The structure of the session is set in a safe and healing environment that allows each of you to face one another and find the words you want him or her to hear but haven't been able to say and perhaps retrieve the love you lost. There is no problem too big or too small. Come to couple counseling and see what you can salvage; and if you cannot I will help you separate in peace and harmony. Partners in business can also find couples counseling useful.

N. Lael Telfeyan, Ph.D., LCSW, ACSW

Psychotherapist

I work with couples who are in the early, middle or long term places in their relationship because people seek assistance for various reasons! Life is very stressful these days with a lot of pressure and stimulation from social media, work, finances and family.
Often, communication patterns can be improved or expectations clarified. I have offices in Manhattan and Great Neck to meet your geographical needs.
Short term counseling can help you move in a positive direction.

Jacqueline Swensen, PhD, LCSW

Licensed Psychoanalyst, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Has your relationship become something that isn't what you planned? Were you so happy as a couple in the beginning but now, years later, you find yourself asking questions like, "Who is this person?" Has the joy vanished? Do you wonder if you have a partner or a roommate? Has the passion disappeared? Relationships take work and can be difficult, and psychotherapy with Dr. Swensen might be just what you need. I can help you learn to talk in different ways to each other and express things that have eluded you in the past.

Maggie Vaughan, LMFT, PhD

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; Psychotherapist

Dr. Vaughan specializes in the treatment of couples. She also commonly works with individuals to address relationship concerns. Treatment assists individuals in acquiring the insight and communication skills necessary for working through wounds and preventing unwanted relational patterns. Partners in couple therapy gain increased acceptance and understanding of one another, as well as greater trust and closeness.

Bennett Pologe, Ph.D.

Psychologist

As has been the cry of physicians since the breed was invented: Why do you wait so long to come see me?! Research has shown that couples don't seek help for on average six years after problems emerge, by which time the resentment and problems have become long standing and unwieldy. By then, as any of you who have gone to couples counseling probably know, the therapy feels like too little too late and couples leave discouraged by the size of the problems. Solution: Go sooner! Even the best relationships require tending and attention, so when something is brewing that you can't resolve yourselves, don't let it fester. The sooner you go for a tune-up, the faster (and cheaper) it'll be.

Joan Warren, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

I am a relationship expert, trained in Imago Relationship Therapy. In working with couples at all stages of partnership, I focus on:
* improving communication
* resolving conflict
* meeting each others' needs while maintaining individuality
* healing wounds and building trust and connection
I offer premarital counseling to explore expectations and habits to keep or change, and help established couples maintain romance and intimacy, effectively communicate, address issues of infidelity and other relationship exits. By using proven, beneficial methods we will explore your individual points of view, while strengthening your loving bond, in and out of session.

Moshe Ratson, MBA, MS MFT, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Making an intimate relationship work is not an easy task. Too often, couples feel frustrated and helpless when their individual concerns clash, and when hurt turns to anger. spiral2grow of New York City provides experienced, supportive, and respectful couples therapists and marriage counselors, who can help you clarify issues and goals, design solutions and work toward achieving them in a gradual way.
Couples counseling helps identify areas where constructive change may improve couples’ capacity to function better in their relationship. Couples therapy is not just “getting advice,” but learning how to find and implement new solutions and discover greater freedom to make choices you want an

Jean Fitzpatrick, L.P.

Psychotherapist and Couples Counselor

35 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison), New York, New York 10016

Relationship problems? Learn how to turn conflicts into lasting love. Experienced, caring counseling for couples. I work actively in the session to listen to each partner and to teach more effective communication, based on the most authoritative research. Recovering from an infidelity? New parents wanting to find each other again? Tired of bickering? Marital, premarital, straight, gay. To ask questions about couples counseling or to make an appointment, email or call me and I will respond within 24 hours.

Annie Block Pearl, M.S.

Psychotherapist

I believe that our love relationships are the most powerful mirror to reflect back to us the condition of our psyches. Love provides us with the courage to face our faults, weaknesses and misapprehensions and creates the impetus to change that which stands in the way of our peace, happiness and personal evolution. In my work with couples, together we view the family systems that form each partner and then we envision and create the new system of the couple relationship. Our work together fosters intimacy, communication, empathy, and most importantly, mutual respect. Whatever the outcome, honesty and love are able to flow in the safety of this environment.

Rev. Christopher Smith, LCAC, LMHC, LMFT

Helping you find wholeness...

Christopher sees couples (married, re-marriage or otherwise) understanding that close relationships are important in our lives. We are also all human, and at times these relationships do not live up to what we had hoped for. Together, with different techniques and appropriate help, issues can be addressed and the relationship can be continued (or, if desired, terminated) so that everyone has a sense of wholeness and peace within this important dimension of their lives. Christopher will guide your as you explore what is going on and though the journey to wholeness.

Diane Davis, L.C.S.W.

Licensed Psychotherapist

Relationship can bring great joy as well and great challenges. Many problems stem from difficulty communicating with your partner. I can assist you in finding the way to express yourself, as well as the capacity to listen; to find the appropriate boundaries that enable you to feel free while staying connected. Working through conflicts in relationships often not only preserves the relationship, but also empowers each individual to be more confident and open in their own life.

Stephanie Manes, JD, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

I am a certified couples therapist and mediator. For couples struggling with cycles of conflict and mutual misunderstanding, I will help you to understand how and why you keep falling into the same patterns and to learn new ways of engaging. I also work with spouses and partners who find themselves feeling alone and missing any spark of romantic connection to create new intimacy and aliveness. Perhaps you are both unsure of whether you should try to hold the marriage or partnership together. I offer the space and guidance to actively and clearly consider the pros and cons of your current circumstances, realistic hopes for the future, and the best path for both parties.

Lauren Rigney, MS, LMHC, NCC, DCC, ACS

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

You will learn the complicated dynamics that are occurring in your relationship on several different levels - emotion, behavior, and cognitive. You will each learn what you bring to the relationship as individuals and how that fits with your partner. You will learn communication skills and how to listen to your partner for content and emotion. You will have a safe space to talk about difficult issues. You may find increased intimacy with your partner. Couples counseling is not just for romantic relationships. Business and creative partners can also benefit from couples therapy.

Tania Suarez, MSEd, LMHC, NCC

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Relationships take work, commitment, sacrifice, communication, and compromise. None of this is easy! And when you and your partner don't see eye to eye or have differing values, this becomes even more stressful and frustrating. I can help facilitate open communication between you and your partner to help you understand the root of your problems, how they are negatively affecting your relationship, and how to work through and resolve them. It's a process and takes time, but worth the effort if the relationship is important to you.

Kevin Fleming Ph.D.

Coach/Change Agent/Consultant

What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don’t agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161.
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Barbara Bennett, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Relationships are hard, as any news site will eagerly tell you. Stories of celebrity affairs, break-ups and other scandals are so common that there doesn’t seem to be much hope for the rest of us. I’m here to tell you that there is hope, even after years of tension, conflict, or emotional distance for any couple—straight, gay, dating, married, post-divorce—from any racial, ethnic, or spiritual background.
Conflict happens in all relationships. But it isn’t inevitable, even after years of bad feeling. I help couples step outside of their pain and frustration to see each of their roles in these conflicts. From there, couple can begin to communicate and finally have conversations that have productive outcomes leading to greater intimacy.

H.C. Fall Willeboordse, LCSW-R

Fall Willeboordse, LCSW-R

Every couple is unique in the way the partners relate, communicate, and approach conflict--or fail to do so. For that reason I treat every couple according to its own very specific issues. If you feel you’ve been coming up against the same problems with no resolution, or have had a new crisis emerge in your relationship, getting help sooner rather than waiting can often repair and strengthen the relationship. I work short term and am solution-focused.

Carolyn AlRoy, Psy.D.

Licensed Psychologist

I get to know the couples as individuals and as a couple. So, I would start with a joint session with the both of you, and then see you both individually. The reason for that is that people share different information with and without their partner. All information is confidential, and the rule is "No leaking" (that is, not to talk about your individual session, with me, with your partner).

Michael Picucci, PhD, MAC, SEP

Holistic Psychologist, Author, Focalizer

In working with couples and conflicts, I approach it more as an organic facilitation process rather than traditional therapy. Utilizing new human technologies, we come to understand that there is no right or wrong or good and bad. Yet, there are insidious unconscious dynamics that are powerful and can cause blind spots. Our process together will tease apart these dynamics while working on resolving them, thereby uncovering new fields of possibilities.

Gerald Schoenewolf, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychoanalyst

Each couple is unhappy in its own way, but the core of the unhappiness is always miscommunication. Generally each member of a couple brings bad communication habits to the relationship and these habits clash. I use an eclectic approach to couples therapy that combines the latest research, utilizing psychoanalysis, role playing, role reversal, video and practice in constructive communication skills. In time, couples learn to communicate in a way that leads to resolution, not conflict.

Heidi Seifert, LCSW-R, MA

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

The first step is to do a free couple’s assessment. In this session we’ll get clear on what has been difficult for both of you and how have you have been feeling. We will look at what the most important things that you have not been getting from your relationship. Then we will determine what makes a relationship for you and what would potentially break up a relationship. In closing we will go over what does work about the relationship and I will teach you a method that will help a woman learn to speak to men and for men to know how to speak to a woman.

Lois Horowitz, Ph.D, LCSW

Psychotherapist

London Terrace Gardens/ Chelsea/ West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10011

Are you and your partner stuck in an unhealthy power struggle? Do you cycle through the same arguments? Do you point the finger of blame rather than take responsibility for the role you play in an unhealthy dynamic? Let’s create a warm and supportive environment to explore the triggers that lead to your dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors. I work with all kinds of couples, married, living together, gay and straight. Please visit my website lhorowitz.com for more information.

Comprehensive Counseling LCSWs, LMHC, PhD, MD

Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Psychologists & Psychiatrists

Most relationships get strained at some point. Working with a therapist may be helpful. Couple's counseling, marriage counseling, and relationship therapy is the process of working with a couple to identify and manage problematic issues or dynamics in a relationship. Treatment may include examining how each of the partners' personalities and values influence communication and behavior within the relationship.

Joel Stukalin, PHD, ABPP, FAACP, MS

QUEENS COUPLES COUNSELING CENTER

Dr. Joel Stukalin and Dr. Sara Mandelbaum are particularly sensitive to the needs of unmarried couples, such as conflicts regarding trust, fidelity, emotional-bonding, finances, future-planning, resistance to committment. We have specialized in couples work for 40 years and have been highly praised by clients as attuned psychologists who truly understand the problems and frustrations of couples living together. As child psychologists, we additionally help couples negotiate important issues with child-care concerns.
Dr. Joel and Dr. Sara offer realistic models to improve empathic-communication and problem-resolution with minimum disruption. Meaningful change can start within 4 sessions.

Carolyn Ehrlich, LCSW, CGP

Psychotherapist

Do you wish to improve the quality of your life? Do you wish to acquire meaning, purpose, belonging, balance, awareness, joy, passion, connection, love, peace?
Mindwork was founded on the belief that you who seeks therapy have the potential for psychological and emotional growth. Our practice is geared towards building and establishing positive relationships and positive mood within your experience. We also believe that therapy should be accessible to you, therefore we accept most forms of health insurance.

Nataliya Rusetskaya, LCSW, Ph.D. candidate

Certified Couple and Relationships Therapist, Sex Therapist

Currently I work with couples to create a therapeutic alliance of trust and safety, to gain better insights about their life challenges, and to assist the clients in reaching their goals and connect better with their loved ones through improved communication patterns and increased intimacy.
The pain and conflict of the committed relationship arise not out of lack of love for our partners, but from misunderstanding what love relationship is about.
Using Imago Dialogue restores contact and connection, enabling mutual emotional healing, restarting the developmental engine and leading to the recovery of personal wholeness

Konstantin Lukin, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist

Here at the Lukin Center, our goal is to support each individual while nurturing the health and growth of their relationship. We strive to accomplish improving relationships by:
Identifying the sources of negative interaction styles,
Correcting problematic patterns of behavior,
Eliminating blockages that prevent positive emotional reciprocity,
Helping rebuild strong emotional connections.
Working with a clinician and your partner simultaneously will provide a safe space to work through the obstacles to your mutual relationship satisfaction and help build a foundation of trust within your relationship.

Susie Greenebaum, LCSW, MS Ed

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

The purpose of couples counseling is to stimulate self-reflection and to facilitate healthy, honest communication between individuals. Couples counseling can be a place where you and your partner come together to examine patterns of thinking and behaving which lead to unhealthy merging, distance and conflict. Couples counseling can also be a place to disclose new information, reassess old agreements, and change the direction of a relationship.

Walter Masterson, LCSW

Psychotherapy and Counseling

Careers and children each place enormous stress on a couple’s ability to be together in an intimate and satisfying way. Every couple has different ways of dealing with the challenges, and counseling can provide the perspective and encouragement to re-create a shared vision for the future. For something as important as this, it is surprising how little training and preparation is provided; family therapy fills in the blanks, and resolves the confusion.

Barbara Dietz, LCSW

Couples counseling brings a third person - the therapist – into the dyad in hopes of clarifying or resolving conflict that threatens the integrity of the two-person relationship. Patterns can develop in a relationship that are hard to identify without an independent listener. Fears and needs from early life often unknowingly influence how we experience our partner. Learning to know your partner’s strengths and weaknesses as seen through the lens of
a trained listener can help you see each other in a new differently.

Susan Bady, LCSW, BCD

Registered Psychotherapist

I help couples feel safe with me, as an impartial person who does not take sides, but rather helps them explore their relationship. I will teach communication skills so that you express your truth in an honest and effective way and to hear your partner's side without defensiveness; I will help you explore past influences that effect your current interaction. I will help you offer loving support both to yourself and to your partner . And then I will help you learn to compromise, as together you work out the inevitable tangles of two complex beings striving towards intimacy.

Zoe Williams, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist

Relationships are an essential factor in our mental health. I work with individuals, partners, and families to identify specific problems in the relationship and teach healthy and effective strategies for communication, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving. The goal is a loving and harmonious climate in your relationships. I have special experience working with same-sex couples and non-traditional relationship structures.

Lisa Lempel-Sander, LPsyA

Licensed Psychoanalyst

Couples, like individuals, can get stuck in unhealthy patterns. Treatment calls for a strong commitment to fairness and sensitivity to the narratives of both partners. It also calls for a trained ear that can hear and decipher how each partner contributes to the dysfunction. The benefits of couples therapy include learning how to communicate effectively, how to promote and increase the intimacy and closeness in your relationship, and how to negotiate conflict. My work with couples also includes sex-therapy and sex education.

Mars & Venus Counseling Center, LCSWs, DCSW, LPCs, MFTs, LCADC, CTP

LCSWs, DCSW, LPCs, MFTs, LCADC, CTP, and Ph.D.

Our dedicated couples counselors, through the educational and insightful works of Dr. John Gray, the best-selling author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” and the techniques of other renowned leaders in field of counseling, will actively assist and support a couple to have a healthier, more fulfilling, happier relationship through mutual respect, good communication, and trust. Our couples counselors will be there every step of the way as relationships grow and evolve for the better. Through empathetic active talking and listening, our couples counselors will promote a healthy change in the relationship and help you heal and forgive past inner hurts. You will be educated on what you and your partner really need in a relationship by learning...(view profile to read more)